A Lightning Introduction to the Hartree Centre
Alison Kennedy Director | STFC Hartree Centre | UK Who are we?
STFC’s high performance computing, data analytics and cognitive technology centre
Provides businesses (and researchers) with access to powerful technologies, facilities and scientific computing expertise
Primary purpose is to apply the latest capabilities in computing technologies to commercial challenges Our mission
To transform UK competitiveness by facilitating and accelerating the adoption of high performance computing, data-centric computing and cognitive technologies.
Lenovo / Arm development system
Research & innova on Development & Be er products & services Deployment through collabora on prototyping delivered faster & cheaper Logical Innovation Framework
Research Invent Engineer Commercialise Market What is our Unique Selling Proposition?
The Innovation Return On Research (IROR or “Phase 3”) programme gives us the opportunity to bring these three key technologies together.
Tangible Digital Assets • Workflow is the definition, execution and automation of business processes, for co-ordination and synchronisation (driven by increasing data volumes) • Improved productivity • Faster business reaction time • Improved accountability and transparency
• A Digital Asset is a “building block” that comes in a binary format with the right to re-use • Software packages, modules, tools, datasets etc. • Typically delivered in a “container” with its own operating environment Our machines
Intel platforms Accelerated & emerging tech Bull Sequana X1000 Maxeler FPGA system Lenovo NeXtScale | 8,192 cores ARM 64-bit platform
Lenovo System x iDataPlex system | 2048 cores Clustervision novel cooling demonstrator Intel Xeon Phi | Knight's Corner IBM big data analytics cluster | 288TB
IBM data centric platforms IBM Power8 + NVLink + Tesla P100 IBM Power8 + Nvidia K80